P Floding;152328 Wrote: > That could possibly be because they are identical, and the Monster label > costs the additional $40.
I recently purchased an HDTV, and was agape at the cost of HDMI cables that were readily available, so I started reading reviews of the various cables to see if the cost could at all be justified. I found a review that tested a range of cables from a $10.00 no-name up to the top-shelf offering from Monster costing over $100.00. In bench tests, they could find no measurable difference. In viewing tests they actually found a difference ... the cheaper cables actually ALL fared better than the Monster cable. The reason the Monster cable fared worse than the competition was due to EXACTLY the reason that Monster justifies thier extreme cost. HDMI connectors have no locking mechanism. The Monster cable turned out to be so thick and heavy, it was pulling on the connector causing signal dropout. Ironic, no? In the end, I bought a cheap cable off of eBay ... the picture is beautiful. -- jeffluckett ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jeffluckett's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29353 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
